Posted April 9, 2018 10:00 am by Comments

By Chris Eger

Murphy announced the executive action on gun trace numbers in conjunction with New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal and State Police Superintendent Col. Patrick Callahan at a middle school. (Photo: Murphy’s office)
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy last week inked an executive order to publicize firearm trace data in the state with an eye towards focusing public awareness on illegal gun use.
Murphy, a Democrat who strongly backs gun control initiatives in the state, signed Executive Order #21 at a middle school in Asbury Park along with state Attorney General Gurbir Grewal and State Police Superintendent Col. Patrick Callahan. The directive requires monthly and quarterly publication of data on gun crimes and the source states of firearms recovered by authorities.
Murphy, holding the state has seen 500 gun deaths since 2016, said the regular data dump “will allow residents to see how gun violence impacts their communities and gain a fuller understanding of how firearms are trafficked into New Jersey from other states.”
A statement from Murphy’s office says 80 percent of guns used in crimes committed in New Jersey come from outside of the state. According to information from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in their 2016 trace data

Source: Guns.com

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